Thieves unlock stolen iPhones using cheap tools sold on Telegram

Infoblox researchers uncovered a Telegram-based underground marketplace that sells iPhone unlocking tools, phishing and smishing kits, and social-engineering services to monetize stolen devices. The ecosystem includes Windows unlocking tools, phishing pages mimicking Apple Find My, bots and templates for customized smishing, and thousands of associated domains and Telegram groups; researchers noted a large increase in smishing-related DNS telemetry and estimated broad, active abuse rather than isolated experiments.